http://elijah.mirecki.com/categories/life/ Recent content in Life on Sylvia Mirecki Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:53:03 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/alp-camping/ Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:53:03 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/alp-camping/ On a completely ordinary Saturday afternoon a friend messaged the Canadian Intern Crew™ at work, asking if we wanted to go see the mountains in Quarten - a city in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The original plan was to take a boat North across the lake Walensee, camp in the mountains, then train back to Zürich in the morning. When Louis and I were waiting for the boat in Quarten, we watched it sail past the dock we stood at. http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/wearhacks-toronto-2016-project-infraviewer/ Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:34:56 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/wearhacks-toronto-2016-project-infraviewer/ At WearHacks Toronto 2016, we were trying to think of project ideas, but nothing came to mind that we all agreed on. So Adrian, Austin and I went out for coffee to take a mental break. While at the coffee shop, we were talking about all the types of light humans are blind to. Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could the whole spectrum of light, including infra red and ultra violet? http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/uoft-hacks-2016/ Sun, 31 Jan 2016 03:55:46 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/uoft-hacks-2016/ So last weekend, I spent 36 hours at UofT for their annual hackathon. If you have not been to a hackathon, I highly recommend it! There are tons of like minded individuals making awesome projects. Check out the swag I collected: I even got a new domain name for free: http://squabbit.tech/. Yes, SquabbitTech is our “company” name :3 The application my team built was a super-fuzzy note searching tool called Fuzzy Wuzzy. http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/polyphasic-sleeping-for-31-days/ Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:17:04 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/polyphasic-sleeping-for-31-days/ For the next 5 weeks, I will be sleeping from 23:00-2:00 and 4:00-7:00, totaling in 6 hours of sleep per day. This is known as the segmented sleep schedule. If it goes well, I will likely continue with this schedule. For some of you 6 hours probably sounds like a lot, but I usually get 8 hours, so cutting out 2 is a significant improvement. My motive behind doing this is that I was recently offered a research opportunity that I could not refuse (I will likely post about it later).